New educational tool on Black Health launches in Canada
March 21/2024Black Health Primer addresses challenges in receiving adequate and unbiased health care By Elaine Smith A new online course on Black health and anti-Black racism in the Canadian health-care system will now be available to learners across Canada, and its creators say the tool will be a momentous step in...
Reminder: Measles Vaccines Protect Those Who Cannot Protect Themselves
March 18/2024With measles cases popping up across Canada, U of T researchers explain why getting vaccinated helps those who can’t. By Ishani Nath Measles cases are popping up across Canada, and with low vaccination rates and travellers returning from March Break, health officials are concerned this preventable disease may continue...
Inaugural Canadian SORT IT Program Aims to Improve Accessibility and Uptake of Vaccines
March 12/2024The launch of the Canadian public health program SORT IT provides critical research support to countries and institutions By Subrana Rahman, MPH Social and Behavioural Health Sciences (Health Promotion) Student, Class of 2024 As a global partnership based at TDR (the Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases...
Tuberculosis Research in Tibet Soars to New Heights, Improving Treatment Adherence and Outcomes
February 22/2024Professor Xiaolin Wei, the Dalla Lana Chair of Global Health Policy, in Clinical Public Health and Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation at DLSPH, and his co-authors recently had their tuberculosis research in Tibet published in The Lancet. The article is titled ‘Effectiveness of a comprehensive package based on...
These researchers explore how Latine/x newcomers experience housing and health
February 02/2024The two-year study will explore housing and health challenges unique to Latine/x newcomers. By Elaine Smith Professor Amaya Perez-Brumer, an early career researcher at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health (DLSPH), and her co-researchers have been awarded a Connaught Community Partnership Grant to study the unique housing challenges facing...
New Academic Centre Unites Four Health Sciences Faculties to Address Global Ecological Change
December 07/2023A new academic centre aims to advance education, research, and impact in planetary health and sustainable health systems, fostering a better future for generations to come. By Stephanie Callan Climate change stands as one of the most significant threats to global health, with decades of research demonstrating both large...
Infants are vulnerable to chickenpox earlier than previously assumed, new study finds
November 21/2023Findings published in PLOS ONE indicate that in most cases, the protection passed from mother to infant fades after two months, leaving infants at risk of infection. Ishani Nath Infants are not protected against the varicella-zoster virus, the virus that causes chickenpox, for several months before they are eligible for...
A Canadian first: Country-wide study shows primary care transformation is slow, incremental, fragmented
November 20/2023Prof. Monica Aggarwal led a team in a decade-long study that observed and assessed changes in primary care delivery across 13 Canadian jurisdictions. The results show that progress was limited, slow, and sometimes missing altogether in many attributes of high-performing primary care in Canada’s splintered system. Despite significant efforts and...
COVID-19 vaccination during pregnancy leads to lower risk of neo-natal death, U of T researchers find
October 25/2023“[This study] provides further reassurance on the safety of maternal mRNA COVID-19 vaccination during all trimesters of pregnancy for newborns and infants," said the study. By: Gabrielle Giroday This story originally appeared on Temerty Faculty of Medicine's news site. New research shows pregnant mothers who receive mRNA vaccines to...
This PhD student is filling a gap in research on intimate partner violence, brain injury and mental health
October 02/2023Danielle Toccalino is one of two DLSPH PhD students who have received the Ontario Women’s Health Scholars Award for her research on intimate partner violence-related brain injury and the mental health of survivors. Her research is greatly needed – the body of literature that explores the impacts of brain injury...